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CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Lorain man authorities called a “serial abductor” was arrested in the kidnapping of a 6-year-old Cleveland girl and the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old Elyria girl, the FBI said. Justin Christian, 29, was arrested late Friday and is being held in the Cuyahoga County Jail on charges of kidnapping and rape. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said they will present the case to a county grand jury. The arrest was announced Monday at a press conference held with federal, state and local law enforcement officials. Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams called Christian “a monster” and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine called Christian a serial abductor. READ MORE HERE

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A Healdsburg father has been arrested in connection with the death of his 4-year-old daughter, authorities said Monday. Gerardo Mendoza Ordaz, 42, of Healdsburg, was taken into custody and was being held Monday on suspicion of homicide. Police said they believe the father intentionally drowned the girl in a baptismal pool at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, located in the 200 block of Matheson Street in Healdsburg. READ MORE HERE

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Law enforcement officials in East Texas are reporting the alleged murderer of 10-year-old Kayla Gomez-Orozco is a previously deported illegal alien from Mexico. Officials with the Smith County jail confirmed to Breitbart Texas that Gustavo Gonzalez, 24, is currently being held in the jail on an immigration detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Gonzalez was also confirmed to be a Mexican national by the jail official. READ MORE HERE

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The mother of three-year-old Aliayah Lunsford hit her in the head on Sept. 24, 2011, causing her death, according to the a criminal complaint released Friday morning. Lena Lunsford was arraigned Friday morning in Lewis County after being transported back to West Virginia from Florida where she was arrested Thursday. The criminal complaint says Lunsford struck her daughter in the head with handheld object and caused blunt force trauma. It’s alleged she didn’t help her and wouldn’t allow those who saw it happen help the girl. READ MORE HERE

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A Maryland woman working as a nanny has been arrested after police said she force fed an eight-month-old baby girl who then died. Oluremi Oyindasola, 66, of Glenarden, Maryland, has been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death and other offenses, Prince George’s County Police said Wednesday. A home surveillance system recorded Oyindasola napping when the crying child, eight-month-old Enita Salubi, approached in a toddler walker, according to police. READ MORE HERE

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Mom murdered son when he learned of affair she was having with his grandfather

SICILY – A mother who murdered her eight-year-old son when the boy allegedly discovered she was having an affair with his grandfather has been jailed for 30 years in Italy. Veronica Panarello throttled her son Loris Stival with electrical cables and abandoned his body in a remote gully in Santa Croce, Sicily. Panarello had tried to pretend her son had been abducted, telling police she had taken him to school and that he had disappeared by the time she came to collect him in the afternoon. READ MORE HERE

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The FBI is asking for help finding a suspected serial child abductor caught on surveillance footage. The suspect is wanted for the May 21 abduction of a six-year-old girl in Cleveland and forensic evidence has tied him to the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl in Elyria, Ohio, in February, the FBI said in a press release. A $20,000 reward is being offered for any information that leads to an arrest. READ MORE HERE

Authorities are asking for public help to determine the origin of a video posted months after she vanished

WISCONSIN – Authorities in Wisconsin are asking for public help to determine the origin of a disturbing video posted online in 2009 that some believe may show a missing girl tied up in a basement. The video, titled ‘Hi Walter, I got a new gf today!’ posted by the user ‘Hi Walter, it’s me, Patrick!’ shows a man talking to the camera about his new girlfriend, then shows a female, apparently bound, in a small bathroom crying. Fifteen-year-old Kayla Berg, of Antigo, vanished a couple of months before the video was posted in 2009. READ MORE HERE

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WEST VIRGINIA – An infant is clinging to life, and her mom’s boyfriend is behind bars in association with what authorities are calling the “worst case of sexual assault” that they’ve seen in 20 years. The Dreamin Demon reports that 32-year-old Benjamin Taylor is facing a variety of charges, which stem from the horrifying incident that took place on Monday morning. Police in Ripley, West Virginia say that they became aware of Taylor’s alleged actions when his girlfriend called 911 to report that her infant daughter was unresponsive. The nine-month-old victim’s mother told authorities that she woke up from her sleep to find that the little girl was missing — and so was her 32-year-old boyfriend. It didn’t take long for her to locate the infant, however, but under absolutely terrifying circumstances. The nine-month-old baby girl was found in the basement of the apartment building where the family has been residing. She was reportedly covered in blood and unconscious at the time of the discovery. READ MORE HERE

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14-year-old gunman wounds 3

TOWNVILLE, South Carolina — A teacher and two young students were injured when a 14-year-old allegedly opened fire at a South Carolina elementary school Wednesday afternoon. 911 dispatchers received the initial call around 1:45 p.m. from a teacher who was in a classroom, reporting an armed male on the campus, officials said at a press conference Wednesday evening. The shooting left a 6-year-old boy in critical condition and undergoing surgery, Scott Stoller, Anderson County’s director of emergency services. READ MORE HERE

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Man calls police saying he just shot his family; 4 children killed

DEARBORN, Michigan – Police arrested a father Wednesday who allegedly murdered his four children in their family home. The man, whose name was not made public, injured his wife and attacked and killed all four kids. The man called Dearborn Heights police at about 1:20 a.m. to confess he had murdered his family. The man was sitting on his front porch when police later arrived at the home. Lt. Michael Krause said the suspect called police and told them that he had killed his entire family. Inside the home, investigators found a 4-year-old Kaliegh Green and 6-year-old Koi Green dead in their beds, a 17-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy dead in the basement, and the suspect’s wife suffering from gunshot and stab wounds. The wife, identified as Faith Green, was rushed to a local hospital and last reported in fair condition. READ MORE HERE

We’re learning more about the violent past of the man accused of killing his two step children and two biological children and then assaulting their mother. Gregory Green served time for a 1991 murder, in which officials say he pleaded no contest to strangling his then wife, who was six months pregnant.

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Dad Kills Baby Daughter Who Survived Cancer Because He Was Jealous

A man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of his toddler daughter in what authorities said was a murder fueled by jealousy over the attention the girl received after surviving cancer. Ryan Lawrence, 25, was arrested two days after he abducted his little girl, Maddox, police said. Lawrence admitted in court to beating his daughter to death with a wooden baseball bat before burning her body in a fire pit and then tying her remains to a cinder block and dumping them in the water. READ MORE HERE

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Toby Willis, who is a star of the TLC reality show The Willis Family, has been arrested for allegedly raping an underage girl. The 46-year-old was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count of rape of a child. He is being held without bail. The married television star is the father of 12 children. While Willis and his family live in Nashville, Tennessee, investigators reportedly picked up Willis in Kentucky after he attempted to flee from law enforcement. READ MORE HERE

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OCALA, Florida – A 10-year-old North Florida boy has been arrested on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of his 2-year-old cousin. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office tells news outlets the boy was booked into a juvenile detention center Wednesday, more than two months after he and his sister told deputies their cousin, Journee Blyden, fell out of a playpen in her Ocala home on June 21 and stopped breathing. The toddler died a few days later of severe head trauma. READ MORE HERE

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Parents arrested for beating death of 4-yo girl

DECATUR, Illinois – The parents of a 4-year-old Decatur girl who died at a local hospital face preliminary charges in her death. An affidavit from Decatur police Detective Erik Ethell says that Amarrah C. Reynolds died Wednesday after being brought to the emergency room unresponsive and with scabs and bruises covering much of her body. READ MORE HERE

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A teenager who vanished from Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 2009 was repeatedly raped in a gang “stash house” for several days – then she was shot dead and fed to alligators when her disappearance generated too much media attention, the FBI said last week. The shocking new details about the mysterious disappearance of 17-year-old Rochester, N.Y., native Brittanee Drexel came largely from a “jailhouse confession” that was subsequently substantiated by others with “tidbits” and “secondhand information,” FBI Agent Gerrick Munoz testified in a federal court transcript. READ MORE HERE

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A schoolgirl was abused by 137 different pedophiles after her profile was posted on a swingers website without her knowing. The girl says she was abducted from near her school and raped at the age of 13 only to be groomed soon after by another man on social media. The same predator would abuse the youngster repeatedly over two years, setting up her profile online and pimping her out to other pedophiles. Paula Smith (a fake name) eventually spoke out against the tirade of abuse, but shockingly only three of her tormentors were brought to justice. READ MORE HERE

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Mark Short, wife Megan and children Liana, Mark, and Willow found dead

A murder-suicide note was found at the bloody scene where a young family of five were shot dead in Pennsylvania, police have said. Parents Mark Short, 44, and Megan Short, 33, and their children Liana, eight, Mark Jr, five, Willow, two, were all discovered with fatal gunshot wounds. Police also found a handgun near one of the parents but they refused to say which one – or who they believed was the shooter. ‘This is an apparent tragic domestic incident,’ District Attorney John Adams confirmed. It has emerged that the youngest child Willow had undergone a pioneering heart transplant at one week-old. READ MORE HERE

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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland — A Maryland mother has admitted to poisoning her 5-year-old son to death last year before setting her car on fire with the child inside. Media outlets report 35-year-old Narges Shafeirad pleaded guilty on Thursday to first-degree murder in the death of Daniel Dana. An autopsy revealed Daniel died of a Diphenhydramine overdose in June 2015 after prosecutors say his mother forced him to swallow medicine containing the common antihistamine. READ MORE HERE

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An alleged pedophile ‘grinned’ and ‘twitched’ as German detectives questioned him about the kidnapping, sexual abuse and murder of two young boys, a court has heard. The prosecutor told a court in Potsdam, near Berlin, how Silvio S, 33, had apparently practiced what he was going to do to his victims by using a children’s doll. Silvio S, a security guard, is accused of murdering four-year-old Mohammed and six-year-old Elias after kidnapping them off the streets. In dramatic scenes in court the prosecutor placed one of the dolls in front of the accused. It was about the same size as a three-year-old child and was one of eight similar dolls found at the suspect’s home. READ MORE HERE